Now through Monday, April 1, undergraduate and graduate students in every discipline can register to participate in the annual UALR Student Research and Creative Works Expo on the Student Research Expo site. Continue reading “Deadline Extended for Student Research Expo”
UALR political science professors Joe Giammo and Art English will join state representatives Ann Clemmer – also a UALR political scientist – and UALR alumnus Fred Love for a post-election panel discussion at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12, at the University of Arkansas Agriculture Extension Building at 2301 S. University, just north of the UALR campus.
The Supreme Court upheld the federal Affordable Care Act on Thursday, ending – at least temporarily – a battle over the controversial statute that has served as backdrop for most of President Obama’s incumbency.
Continue reading “Campus Experts React to Health Care Decision”
Applications are now being accepted for summer internships at The Washington Center, the largest independent, nonprofit academic internship program in the country. The deadline to apply is Feb. 28.
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He was the personification of the emerging politics of progressive moderation in the South in the 1960s following the bitter end of Jim Crow segregation, and his legislative successes ushered in a wave of modernity unknown in Arkansas legislative history.
Continue reading “Bumpers Papers Open at UALR Center for Arkansas History”
Dr. David Cortright, director of policy studies at Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, will present a lecture, “Lessons from the Egyptian Revolution: The Power of Nonviolence,” at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, in the UALR Donaghey Student Center’s Ledbetter Hall B.
UALR’s Middle Eastern Studies Program is hosting a series of films from Monday to Wednesday, Oct. 17 to 19, followed by discussions led by members of the Middle Eastern Studies faculty.
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Iota Mu, UALR’s chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society, has been selected to receive one of its Best Chapter Awards for 2010-2011.
Continue reading “Political Science Society Named Best Chapter”
Members of the UALR chapter of the international studies honor society Sigma Iota Rho and the university’s International Studies Program will present a panel discussion at noon Friday, May 6, on the death of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and how it will affect American foreign policy. The event will be in the Leadership Lounge in the Donaghey Student Center.
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Harold and Syble Gwatney, parents of the late state senator and Democratic Party chair Bill Gwatney, have presented UALR with an additional gift of $50,000 to increase the endowment of a political science scholarship in their son’s memory.
Continue reading “Gwatney Family Extends Memorial Scholarship”